Awful hen party life drawing experience
We booked a hen party life drawing class through this company advertised as 'Life Drawing for Hen Parties isn’t designed to be a serious activity, it should be lots of fun and leave you laughing for the rest of the day!' However, our experience was dismal at best.
The atmosphere was very subdued and felt very serious in content. The model also told us an inappropriate, traumatic story that left us all feeling upset, bringing the mood down.
The room it was booked in was grubby and set out like a meeting, not the fun exciting setting you would expect. The model was an older gentleman and not what we were expecting for a hen party package. As mature women, the model was old enough do be father to many of us. If a younger group of women had booked this, I would be very worried.
Myself and all other hens have been left feeling traumatised by this experience, and actually had a group meeting the next morning to collect our thoughts.
We have put a complaint in with the company and they are shifting blame onto the hen party saying that it is our responsibility to bring the 'party atmosphere' and accepting no blame for this. We are a positive bunch of women and can assure you we had a great 'party atmosphere' everywhere else we went, that is once we got over this terrible experience.
I would argue it is the company responsibility to deliver on promises of fun, not rely on the group to create a 'party atmosphere', surely the hosts representing the company have a huge part to play in this? Do they actually receive any training to fulfill the companies promises?
Information (which I cannot disclose on here) provided by the company has been contradictory to what the model informed us on the day. This discrepancy has left me questioning the integrity of the company. They confirm this information was a misunderstanding when I questioned it further.
I would not want any other women to go through this and would not recommend this company.
Date of experience: 23 March 2024